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Kip Tom, former ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture, will visit Purdue University on April 5.

As world hunger persists, Russia’s war on Ukraine will be devastating for people in countries already struggling with food security and poverty.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jul 26 2021 (IPS) - Undoubtedly, the world needs to reform existing food systems to better serve humanity and sustainable development. But the United Nations World Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) must be consistent with UN-led multilateralism. For the first time ever, the World Economic Forum (WEF), a partnership of some of the world’s most powerful corporations, is partnering the UN in launching the Summit, now scheduled for September, with its ‘Pre-Summit’ beginnin...

Thursday, February 4, 2021 6:00 AM Ambassador Kip Tom (Center, right) with World Food Program Executive Director David Beasley (Center, left) celebrating a food delivery to an IDP camp in South Sudan. Photo provided. Ambassador Kip Tom (left) welcomes U.S. Secretary Of State Mike Pompeo to co-sign the MAC Protocol from the Cape Town Convention. Photo provided. Ambassador Kip Tom (left) inspects the Casava crop at a farm in ...

Thursday, February 4, 2021 6:00 AM Ambassador Kip Tom (Center, right) with World Food Program Executive Director David Beasley (Center, left) celebrating a food delivery to an IDP camp in South Sudan. Photo provided. Ambassador Kip Tom (left) welcomes U.S. Secretary Of State Mike Pompeo to co-sign the MAC Protocol from the Cape Town Convention. Photo provided. Ambassador Kip Tom (left) inspects the Casava crop at a farm in ...

Kip Tom shared his experiences pursuing a well-developed passion for defeating food insecurity on the world stage.

Sophia Murphy is the executive director of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. Last week, the Trump Administration’s ambassadors to Rome and Brussels (Kip Tom and Ronald Gidwitz respectively) published a joint opinion piece in Euractiv. Their initial message was good. In brief, they noted that global hunger is a scourge and on the rise. This is true; although they did not mention it, the US, too, is facing rising levels of hunger. They said there is no single solution to the probl...

We must build more resilient, sustainable global food systems that can feed an increasingly hungry world, or there will be dire consequences, warn Kip Tom and Ronald J. Gidwitz. Kip Tom is the US ambassador to the UN agencies in Rome; Ronald J. Gidwitz  is the US ambassador to the EU. Norman Borlaug, father of the Green Revolution, once cautioned that ”there are no miracles in agricultural production.” It’s an interesting sentiment, especially coming from someone who led a wave ...

The head of the World Food Program believes that 2021 could see “famines of biblical proportions” as the economic struggles of COVID-19 may hamper global responses to food shortages caused by military conflicts, the rise of Islamic extremism and locust infestations.  In an interview late last year with The Christian Post during a visit to Washington, D.C., WFP Executive Director David Beasley, a former Republican governor of South Carolina, expressed concern for the funding problems tha...

Reported By Samuel Smith, U.S. Editor | Wednesday, January 06, 2021 Read more at https://www.christianpost.com/news/world-food-program-warns-of-famines-of-biblical-proportions.html?uid=03bea79789 World Food Programme Executive Director David M. Beasley (middle) and U.S. Ambassador Kip Tom visit South Sudan on July 23, 2019. | WFP/Giulio d'Adamo The head of the World Food Program believes that 2021 could see “famines of biblical proportions” as the economic struggles of COVID-19&he...